Culloden victors 'need memorial'

A LEADING historian has called for a memorial to be raised to the government troops who died at the Battle of Culloden.

Writing in the latest edition of Scotland in Trust, the magazine of the National Trust for Scotland, Trevor Royle, a military historian, said the government troops had no equivalent to the Jacobite grave markers on the site.

He said: "Given the importance of the battle for the future of the nation state and also for the development of the British Army, is it not time to put that right?"

Culloden, on 16 April, 1746, was the last major battle in mainland Britain.